There is a revealing article in the New York Times about the machinations of Microsoft regarding the flawed Vista OS. While marketing spin should come as no surprise to anyone, this story is one amongst others that argues for the … Continue reading
A scandal has arisen in China in which one of the winners of CCTV’s Top 10 News Photos of the Year (2007) has recently admitted to photo-shopping his picture. The artist, Liu Weiqiang, is a well-established and respected photographer who … Continue reading
In 2006/07 the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies administered a nationwide survey exploring the perspectives and experiences of cruelty-free consumers. New Zealand is a small country (human population just over 4 million), whose economy since European settlement around 200 … Continue reading
Ecofeminist scholar Val Plumwood passed away last week. Her major theoretical works that influenced me include Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) and Environmental Culture: the Ecological Crisis of Reason (2002). They think she died from a snakebite. This, … Continue reading
